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(N70 Model.)

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PORTABLE; GLEAT. No. 376,595. Patented Jan.'17,'1888.

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UNITED STATES PATENT Urrrcir.

CHARLES P. HAWLEY, OF NE\V YORK, N. Y.

PORTABLE CL EAT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 376,595, dateddanuary 17, 1889.

Application filed April 26. 1887. Serial No. 236,176. (No model.)

To all whom/ ib may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES P. HAWLEY, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Portable Cleat, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to an improvement in portable cleats, and has for its object to provide a quick and secure tie, using one end of an attached string or'ta-pe only.

The further object of the invention is to provide a ready and reliable tie for packages and bundles, preferably vouchers that are bulky, adapted to be tied up and put away in pigeonholes and similar places, and which are con,- stantly being referred to, untied, and tied up again. i

The invention consists in the construction and combination of the several parts ofa cleat, which will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawing, in which the figure represents a perspective view of the cleat.

In the accompanying illustration the cleat is shown as made of wire and of a small size;

but it admits of being made smaller than shown, and also of being increased in size until it becomes non-portable from overweight. The cleat may also be made of one,'two, or more pieces, or of fancy design or plain, or of any suitable material.

Preferably the cleat is made of one piece of wire twisted and bent, or bent only to shape shown, being so constructed that it will be doubly strong where the greatest strength is needed.

WVhen made of the size shown, the cleat A is used in connection with a string or tape, A. The wire, which is thematerial employed for this size, is bent to form a loop or eye, I), to which t-he tape or string A is fastened, and the upwardly-extending and diverging ends B B, whereupon the free end of the tape or string, after having been passed around the article to be fastened, is secured with a hitch in similar manner as a sailor would manage a hawser.

The wire, after being bent to form the eye I), is twisted upon itself to form the body, and then bent up and twisted to form the shank a, the ends B and B being carried outward in opposite directions in substanl ially thesameplane with the body. A guide-bar, D, is attached transversely the body at the bottom near the neck. The form of the bar may, however, be changed or entirely omitted without departing from the spirit of the invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A cleat constructed ofone piece of wire, consisting, essentially, ofa body portion, a tra nsverse guide attached to the under side of the body extending outwardly from both sides, an

eye in one end of the-body, a vertical twisted shank integral with said body, and outwardly extending diverging arms integral with said shank, substantially as shown and described.

CHARLES P. HARVLEY.

\Vitnesses:

LANSING VAN DEUSEN, SANFORD VAN DEUSEN. 

